Brexit was a dominant theme at ATC’s 40th annual summit held in London. Presentations ranged from the beauty of budgeting and translation work hidden deep within banks to the results of ATC’s 2016 language industry survey. Continue reading
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Luxembourg-based Amplexor wins contract against 13 competitors; Chief Sales Officer estimates volume at 200,000 pages annually into and from all official EU languages and points to the challenge of managing such a contract successfully. Continue reading
As Berlin attracts ever more entrepreneurs and continues to move up the rankings, the city’s rise as a European technology hub proves a boon to localization providers, such as text&form, which help startups go global. Continue reading
Google team publishes a detailed paper on its rapid progress in neural machine translation. Says new model running on Google’s Tensor Flow surpasses all other systems and approaches human translation. Continue reading
Fast-growing language service provider LinguaLinx acquires client portfolio of California-based Language Translation Inc.; plans to grow through up- and cross-selling. COO says another acquisition planned for 2017, but no plans to look for outside financing. Continue reading
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After a five-year legal battle, Los Angeles finally bites the bullet and signs off on more free language services for litigants with limited English proficiency. Chief federal law enforcement officer of seven California counties vows greater access to judicial system for LEP individuals. Continue reading
Supertext, Lexitech, IOLAR, beo, Lucy Software, and Globalese among backers that raised a collective EUR 40,000 to finance development of open-source translation productivity tool translate5. Continue reading
Technology may enable humans to replace many things, but relationships remain a constant in the language industry. Amid today’s great technology disruption, the human touch will not go away, says a recent appointee. This is the week in language industry hires at Ubiqus, Hero Tolk, TextMinded, and Andovar. Continue reading
IARPA needs natural language processing, media translation company shuts down and fails to pay linguists, asset manager likes SDL, more money for Expert System, and could IBM Watson now be more useful to LSPs? Continue reading
Amnesty International translated 4.9 million words from January to June 2016. Head of Translation points to “clear uptrend” in translation volumes for languages other than English, Spanish, French, and Arabic; considers new software solutions to improve the capacity and productivity, but “with due caution.” Continue reading
Canadian interpreters in uproar as country’s Translation Bureau seeks to use vetting algorithm for hiring freelancers. New system pre-qualifies interpreters for government jobs by favoring the lowest-bidding freelancers, interpreters’ group says. Continue reading
Swiss remote interpretation startup Interprefy raises second funding round in less than one year; sees its valuation increase from CHF 1.5m to CHF 4m (USD 4.1m). Startup faces pushback from some interpreters, but finds traction among conference organizers in Lake Geneva region and Zurich. Continue reading
Overcoming the language barrier is one of the most important roadblocks to the creation of a functional Digital Single Market in Europe. Rapid advances in machine translation based on neural networks hold a key to unlocking e-commerce worth tens of billions of euros. Continue reading
The European Asylum Support Office opened a request for proposal worth EUR 63.5m for interpretation, interpretation equipment, and so-called cultural mediation. Four-year contract requires on-the-ground presence across much of Southern and Eastern Europe. Continue reading
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